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Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)

2.
Acknowledgements
• I have drawn materials from Mr. P.R.
Chandrashekaran’s (ppt) presentation, IPR Guide
India, WIPO- 2012 publications, different
authors’ books, magazines, Journals and Mr. R.
Saha’s workshop paper on ‘Management of IPRs
in India’ to write this presentation.
• I sincerely acknowledge them and extend my
courtesy to use their knowledge for the
sustainable development of society on non-profit
basis.

3.
Chapter Questions
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• What is Intellectual Property Right and types?
• How do organisations develop and protect them?
• What is the role of Government(s) and Intl. Orgns?
• Are there any cases to discuss?
• What is the future and how to overcome obstacles?
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4.
If you don’t see a problem with this question,
you need this class!
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5.
What is meant by IPRs?
Intellectual Property (IP) is any creations of human mind.
Like tangible property, their creation has a value and, as with
all property, it needs to be protected.
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) gives them this protection,
as well as helping them exploit and control their IP.
“The exclusive right granted by State, to prevent others from
using, manufacturing, distributing - inventions, processes,
applications, new and original designs, trademarks, new plant
varieties, data bases and artistic and literary works”. Such a
person is known as ‘rights owner’ or ‘rights holder’.
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Nature of Intellectual Property Rights
• IPRs has become an issue of wide and serious discussion with the
formation of the General Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) under Uruguay Round
agreement of he GATT (now the World Trade Organisation).
• India is in ‘priority watch list’ of USA under Special 301 system.
• Intellectual property insists on some amount of novelty or originality
to gain protection.
• Intellectual property system is duration specific.
• It does not provide perpetual and absolute monopoly over the
property.
• What is protected with respect to intellectual property is the use or
value of ideas/expressed ideas. However, the bundle of rights
constituting intellectual property is not over abstract ideas but rather
over physical, concrete or tangible manifestations of these ideas.
For e.g., rights under patent law include the right to manufacture,
distribute etc. while rights under copyright law extend to the right of
distribution, publication etc. all of which deal with concrete
embodiments of ideas and not the abstract ideas themselves.
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Constitutional aspects of IP
• The Constitution plays an important part in helping courts and
legislature arrive at and justify a balance between conflicting rights.
• The US Constitution specifically protects the intellectual property
[Article 1(8)] by specifically providing “To promote the progress of
science and arts, by securing for limited times to authors and
inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and
discoveries”.
• Though there is no such intellectual property clause in the Indian
Constitution, there are no constitutional restrictions on the power to
make laws on intellectual property.
• The Constitution (44th Amendment) Act, 1978, struck off the right to
property from the fundamental rights. However, property was made
a legal right and was put under Article 300A in the ‘Right to
Property’, which says “no person shall be deprived of his property
save by authority of law”.
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IPR in brief
• Industrial Designs: Design deals with features, shapes, patterns, etc., applied to an
article by an industrial process, manual or mechanical. Eg., chair is a utility item.
However, chair itself does not qualify for IPR, but its special carvings, embossing
etc., is done which increases the value of chair though it’s utility remains same, it
becomes eligible for IPR under Designs Act. Designs can be registered based on its
originality, henceforth they can use ® or registered, with registration number.
• Patents: Is a monopoly right granted to a person, who invented a new product or
process of making an article, for 20years under the Indian Patens Act, 1970, and
can be renewed after expiration of period. The inventor has to file for patent first,
and then make his/ her invention to public. A patent has to be applied in each
country by the inventor, to claim his rights in that country. Eg: A group of scientists
working on new drug development in Himalaya Drugs for some salary. The patent
of the drug developed is given to Himalaya Drugs, but not to the scientists. The
drug may have many patents like composition, process, and product etc.
• Trademarks: Trademark can be a word, name, brand, symbol, label etc., used by a
company to create a unique identity for their product. Trademark can be registered,
and then use ™ ®. The registration validity is for 7 years and renewable after
expiry. In India, it is governed by the Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958,
which came into force on 25th Nov., 1959.
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IPR in brief..
• Trade Secrets: Trade secret is any intellectual work or product used for a
business purpose that can be classified as belonging to that business
provided it is not based on information in public domain.
• Geographical Indication: This is an indication, that originates from a
definite geographical area, which is used to identify natural or
manufactured product. For eg., Gadwal/ Pochampally Sarees, Nirmal
paintings, Kolhapuri Chappals, Solapur Chaddar etc., qualify for
registration under this category. It is valid for 10 years. The application for
registration can be an association of persons, organization or by producers.
• Copyright: It is a negative right which prevents the appropriation of the
fruits of man’s work, labour or skill by another person. Copyright is an
exclusive legal right to reproduce an original work of authorship fixed in
any tangible medium of expression, to prepare derivative works based on
original work, and to perform or display the work in the case of dramatic,
music, choreographic and sculptural works. Copyright prevents copying of
only the expression. Eg: Bhagwat Geeta, Pathanjali Yoga sutras, Narada
Neeti, Vatsayana Kamasutras etc.,
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGNS
• The laws governing designs are the Designs Act of 2000
and the Designs Rules of 2001. In India designs are defined
as follows:
• ‘A design refers to the features of shape, configuration,
pattern, ornamentation or composition of lines or colors
applied to any article, in two or three dimensional (or both)
forms’. (Design Office, Kolkata: Guidelines for
Registration)
• Designs are valid for a maximum of ten years, renewable
for a further five years.
• The ‘right of priority’ for previous filings of designs
overseas requires filing in India within six months of an
overseas filing.
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INDUSTRIAL DESIGN..
• Design rights, as we have seen, consist of both registered and unregistered
forms.
• The distinctions between what exactly may be protected by each, and the
relative levels of protection, are complex. Expert advice is needed to
choose which is appropriate.
• The more common type is the registered design, covering the appearance
(that is, the shape or pattern) of a product or its packaging, as well as
typefaces and graphics. To be registered in the UK a design must be
distinctive and novel – it should not ‘remind an informed person of an
existing design’ – as well as meeting other detailed criteria.
• Whilst there are costs involved in obtaining registered design rights
(compared with relying on unregistered design rights, which are free) this
form of IPR can be treated in the same way as patents – for example, by
rights owners exploiting their IP through licensing – and it provides a good
level of protection.
• A registered design right lasts for up to 25 years in the UK and must be
renewed every five years.
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PATENTS
• Designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1790 to provide a brief legal monopoly
to give the inventor an opportunity to get the invention into the market
and recoup development costs before competitors entered the market.
• Patent is a monopoly right granted by law for the exclusive use of an
intellectual property to one or more individuals. The instrument by
which such grant is made is known as ‘Patent’. The patent to whom a
patent is granted is called the ‘Patentee’.
• Section 2(m) of the Indian Patents Act, 1970 defines Patent as – “Patent”
means ‘a new product or process involving an inventive step and capable
of industrial application’. Act lays down:
a. Grant of revocation of patents, b. Items not patentable, c. Product patent,
d. Patent period, e. Rights and obligations of patentee, f. Working of the
patent, g. Compulsory licensing and h. Exceptions (inclu. Rights of Govt.)
• After the expiry of the period for which exclusive right is granted to the
inventor (20 years in India from the date of application), the invention
can be put to use by any person other than the one to whom a patent has
been granted.
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Patents contd..
• In Bishwanath Prasad Radheshyam Vs. Hindusthan
Metal Industries, [(1979) 2 SCC 511], the Supreme
Court held that “the object of patent law is to
encourage scientific research, new technology and
industrial progress. Grant of exclusive privilege to
own, use or sell the method or the product patented for
a limited period, stimulates new inventions of
commercial utility. The price of the grant of monopoly
is the disclosure of the invention at the Patent Office,
which after the expiry of the fixed period of the
monopoly, passes into the public domain”.
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Types of Patents
• Utility Patent: Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful
process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any
new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefore,
subject to the conditions and requirements of this title. (35 U.S.C. §
101) E.g: (functional) toys, coatings, tools, machines, good for 20
years
• Plant Patent: Whoever invents or discovers and asexually
reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including
cultivated spores, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings,
other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an
uncultivated state. . . (35 U.S.C. § 161)
– No bacteria or similar single-cell organisms need apply!
• Design Patent: Whoever invents any new, original, and ornamental
design for an article of manufacture may obtain a patent. (35 U.S.C.
§ 171). E.g: (non-functional) a decoration, apparel, jewellery
• Can easily be designed around...no functionality to protect
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Patents contd..
• Under the Indian Patent Law, a “Patentable invention” must
be,-
 a new product or process;
 non-obvious;
 useful; and
 capable of industrial application.
Novelty: Novelty (newness) in an invention depends upon the state of prior art,
i.e., the existing knowledge and similar inventions already known in the
particular field. There will be no novelty, if there has been prior publication
and prior use of same or an identical invention. In other words, the
invention must involve any innovation or technology which has not been
anticipated by publication in any document or used in the country or
elsewhere in the world before the date of filing of patent application. The
subject matter must not have fallen in the public domain.
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Patents contd..
• Non-obviousness: The invention must be non-obvious to a person skilled
in the art to which the invention relates.
• Usefulness: The invention, besides being new and non-obvious, must also
be useful. If the invention can not be put to any beneficial use of the
mankind, it can not be patented.
Exceptions: Some inventions in spite of being new, non-obvious and useful
can not be patented. They include,- [see sec.3]
 Inventions which are injurious to public health or violate public morality or
public interest or which causes serious prejudice to human, animal or plant
life or health, or to the environment;
 New method of agriculture or horticulture is non-patentable in order to
have widespread benefit of such invention, rather than concentrating the
commercial gain of such invention in the hands of inventor alone;
 A process of treatment of human beings, animals or plants;
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Patents contd...
Exceptions contd…
 The mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not
result in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance, or the
mere discovery of any new property, or new use for a known substance or of
the mere use of a known process, machine, or apparatus unless such known
process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant.
 Any process for the medicinal, surgical, curative, prophylactic, diagnostic,
therapeutic or other treatment of human beings or any process for a similar
treatment of animals to render them free of disease or to increase their
economic value or that of their products.
 Any invention which in effect is traditional knowledge or which is an
aggregation or duplication of known properties of traditionally known
component.
 The mere discovery of a scientific principle or the formulation of an abstract
theory or the discovery of any living thing or non-living substance occurring
in nature.
 Inventions relating to atomic energy.
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Patents contd….
Exceptions contd….
 Plants and animals in whole or any part thereof other than micro-organisms
but including seeds, varieties and species and essentially biological
processes for production or propagation of plants and animals;
 A mathematical or business method or a computer program per se or
algorithms;
 A mere scheme or rule or method of performing mental act or method of
playing games;
 A presentation of information;
 Topography of integrated circuits;
 A literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation
whatsoever includes cinematographic works and television productions;
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Patents contd…..
• Persons entitled to apply for patent:
 Person claiming to be the true and first inventor of the invention.
 Any person being the assignee of the true and first inventor of the
invention
 By the legal representative of any deceased person who immediately
before death was entitled to make such an application.
• Full Disclosure of invention:
While the Act grants exclusive right to the inventor to exploit his
invention for commercial gain for a specific period of time, it also
imposes on him the duty of fully disclosing the invention in the complete
specification so as to facilitate anyone from the public working the
invention, once the period of protection is over. The full disclosure of the
patented invention is mandatory. If this is not done, the patent will not
be granted. The validity of such patent, even if granted, can be contested
by an opposing party. The patent can be revoked on such contest
succeeding.
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Patents contd…...
• Use by Central Government: Though the patentee has
exclusive right of use, the Act provides for the Central Govt. to
use any invention even without paying the royalty to the
inventor. The Central Govt. can acquire the patent from the
patentee or any other person having interest in the patent, by
paying the compensation, in public interest.
• Restricted use of patented invention:
Such use by a person other than the patentee is permissible.
For instance, use of patented invention is permissible for
research or experimental purposes or for imparting knowledge
or instructions to pupils.
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Pathway to a Patent
• File a Disclosure Document (Disclosure Statement)
– Establishes date of conception of idea (who has the rights?)
– Get a two year grace period
• File a Provisional Patent Application
– Protect your ideas while talking to manufacturers/potential funders
– Can use the term “patent pending” on the invention
– Only good for 12 months...then must file non-provisional application
• File Non-Provisional Patent Application
– File complete description with the PTO (Patent & Trademark Office)
– “patent applied for” good for two years’ of protection
– Denials allow an appeal process
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Patents -Infringement
Infringement:
 Use by a person other than the patentee or his assignee or
licensee would be an infringement of the patent.
 Civil remedy is filing of a suit in a court of competent
jurisdiction.
 The plaintiff on satisfying the court about the infringement
would be entitled to the following reliefs –
1) interlocutory injunction
2) damages
3) account of profits
 When the subject-matter of a patent is a process for obtaining a
product, the onus is on the defendant to prove that the process
used by him is different from the patented process.
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Patents –Infringement..
• A suit as any grievance relating to infringement of patent may be instituted
in a court not inferior to a District court. But where a counter claim for
revocation of the patent is made by the defendant, the suit along with
counter claim, shall be transferred to the High Court.
• The reliefs which a court may grant include an injunction and either
damages or account of profits. The court may also order that the infringing
goods shall be seized, forfeited or destroyed.
• Any act of making, constructing, using or selling a patented invention solely
for uses reasonably related to the development and submission of
information required under any law; and
• importation of patented products by any person from a person who is duly
authorised by the patentee to sell or distribute the product;
shall not be construed as an infringement of patent rights.
Principles applicable to working of patented inventions:
 Patented inventions are worked in India on a commercial scale and to the
fullest extent without undue delay.
 The protection and enforcement of patent rights contribute to the promotion
of technological innovation and to the transfer and dissemination of
technology to the mutual advantage of producers and users and in a manner
conducive to social and economic welfare.
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Patents –Infringement…
 The patent right is not abused by the patentee and the patentee does not
resort to practices which unreasonably restrain trade or adversely affect
the international transfer of technology.
 The benefit of the patented invention is available to the public at
reasonably affordable prices.
 They do not impede protection of public health and nutrition and
should act as an instrument to promote public interest.
Compulsory Licences:
At any time after the expiration of a period of 3 years from the date of
grant of a patent, the Controller of Patents, if he is satisfied that the
reasonable requirements of the public with respect to the patented
invention have not been satisfied or the patented invention is not
worked in the territory of India or the patented invention is not
available to the public at a reasonably affordable price, may grant a
licence to an applicant upon such terms as he may deem fit. (Sec.84)
In such cases, the patentee’s exclusive right to use is limited only to
three years.
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TRADE MARKS
 Trade Marks Act, 1999 defines TM as a mark capable of being represented
graphically and which is capable of distinguishing the goods or services of
one person from those of others and may include shape of goods, their
packaging and combination of colours.
 Mark includes “Device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word,
letter, numeral, shape of goods, packaging, combination of colours, and any
combination thereof.”
 Brand refers to a name, term, sign, symbol, or design, or a combination of
them, intended to identify the goods or services of one seller or group of sellers
and to differentiate them from those of competitors. E.g. McDonald for
restaurants, Cycle brand agarbattis, etc.
 Brand Name is that part of a brand which can be vocalized-the utterable.
 Brand Mark is that part of a brand which can be recognised but is not a
utterable, such as symbol, design or distinctive colouring or lettering.
 Device refers to pictorial representations – e.g. animals, birds, landscape
buildings, etc.
 Letter as a mark is the identity created out of letterforms and has its inbuilt
strength of distinctiveness and individuality – e.g. IBM, GM, ELBEE, 3M etc.
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TRADE MARKS TERMS EXPLANATION
 Numerals can be registered as trade mark upon evidence of user, e.g. 555,
501
 Symbols may take the shape of brand or logos. A logo is a visual depiction
of a manufacturer or company and gives an identity to it. E.g. B.M.W.,
Maruti, Benz etc.
• Label and ticket mean a composite mark containing various features incl.
devices, words, usually painted on paper and attached to the goods
themselves.
• Name is the words signifying a name, surname or a personal name or an
abbreviation thereof
• Color – a combination of colors can be considered as a trademark-e.g. color
combinations used in drug capsules.
• Sound – sound or a sequence of sound can be registered as a trade mark –
e.g. ‘the roar of the lion’ sound has been registered by MGM pictures; the
‘Tarzan Yell” has been registered as Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc.
• Smell – Registration of smell as a trademark has been permitted as a trade
mark. A smell reminiscent of roses applied to tyres was registered for
Sumitomo tyres – smell of fresh cut grass for the tennis ball, etc.
• Containers fall within the definition of trade mark.
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TRADE MARKS TERMS EXPLANATION.
• ‘Collective mark’ means a trade mark distinguishing the goods or services
of members of an association of persons (not being a partnership), who is
the proprietor of the mark from those of others.
• ‘Service’ means service of any description which is made available to
potential users and includes the provisions of services in connection with
business of any industrial or commercial matters such as banking,
communication, education, financing, insurance, chit funds, real estate,
transport, storage, material treatment, processing, supply of electrical or
other energy, boarding, lodging, entertainment, amusement, construction,
repair, conveying of news or information and advertising. A mark
identifying such a service is called a service mark.
• “Certification trade mark” means a mark capable of distinguishing the
goods or services in connection with which it is used in the course of trade
which are certified by the proprietor of the mark in respect of origin,
material, mode of manufacture of goods or performance of services,
quality, accuracy or other characteristics from goods and services not so
certified. (e.g. wool mark, ISO 9001 etc.)
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TRADE MARKS REGISTRATION
• Trademark and Service mark are used before registration.
• Registration of a trade mark is not a compulsory requirement of the
law. The Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
Act, appointed by the central government is the Registrar of Trade
Marks. A Register of Trade Marks shall be kept in offices, Regd.
Trade Marks details shall be entered into the register.
• Once Trade Mark is accepted, allotted should advertise it in
prescribed manner.
• The registration of a trade mark, if valid, gives its proprietor the
exclusive right to the use of the trade mark in relation to the goods
or services in respect of which the trade mark is registered and to
obtain relief in respect of infringement of the trade mark.
• A trademark registration is for 10 years from the date of registration
and can be renewed every 10 years consecutively. Failure to renew
is removal of the trade mark from register.
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REFUSAL GROUNDS FOR REGISTRATION
Grounds for refusal of registration
• Marks devoid of distinctive character
• Descriptive marks
• Generic marks
• Marks of such a nature as to deceive or cause confusion
• Marks containing any matter which is likely to hurt the religious susceptibilities of
any class or section of the Indian citizens
• Marks containing scandalous or obscene matter
• Marks prohibited under the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper use) Act,
1950
• Marks consisting exclusively of the shape of the goods which results from the nature
of the goods themselves (e.g. apple design for a package of apples, round shape for
tennis balls, etc.)
• Marks consisting exclusively of the shape of the goods which is necessary to obtain
technical results.
• If there exists likelihood of confusion with the earlier trade mark by reason of the
fact of the trade mark being identical with the earlier trade mark and similarity of
goods and services or being similar to earlier trademark and identical or similar
goods and services.
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TRADEMARK REGISTRATION..
• If the earlier trademark being a well-known trademark and the trademark
sought to be registered is identical with or similar to an earlier trademark and
the goods or services are dissimilar and the use of the mark would take
unfair advantage of or be detrimental to the distinctive character or repute of
the earlier trade mark.
• If the use of trademark in India is liable to be prevented because of any law
protecting an unregistered trademark used in the course of trade or because
of law of copy right.
Acquisition of Trademark
 Trademark may be acquired either by the proprietor of the goods and
services for which trademark is sought for registration or by transfer, license,
lease, assignment by the proprietor to another entity.
Suit for infringement
 Suit for infringement of registered trademark or relating to any right in a
registered trademark or for passing off has to be filed in a IP Appellate
Board/ District Court. Reliefs can be claimed by way of injunction, damages,
account of profits with or without an order for the delivery up of the
infringement labels and marks for destruction or erasure.
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Trademark Infringement, Counterfeiting and Dilution
• Infringement - A mark that is likely to cause confusion with a
trademark already existing in the marketplace
• Counterfeiting - The deliberate copying of a mark
• Dilution - The value of the mark is substantially reduced
through competition or through the likelihood of confusion
from another mark
• Offences include falsifying and falsely applying trademarks,
trade description are punishable by imprisonment and fine.
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Trade Secrets
• A trade secret consists of
– a formula, device, idea, process, pattern, or compilation of
information that gives the owner a competitive advantage
in the marketplace,
– a novel idea that is not common knowledge and is kept in a
confidential state.
• A trade secret is not protected by federal law
• Can only be protected through employment contracts and/or
maintaining tight security
• Recipes, ingredients, codes, manufacturing costs
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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
• Geographical indication is an indication originating from a definite
geographical territory and used to identify agricultural, natural or
manufactured goods. The manufactured goods should be produced or
processed or prepared in that territory. It should have a special quality
or reputation or other characteristics. (e.g. Gadwal / Pochampalli/
Kanchipuram silk sarees, Nirmal paintings, Banginapalli /Alphonso
Mango, Darjeeling Tea, Kolhapuri Chappal, Solapur Chaddar, Tirupati
Laddu, Nagpur Orange, Bikaneri bhujia).
• GIs when registered confers legal protection in India through the
Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration & Protection) Act of
1999, prevents unauthorised use of registered GI, promotes the
economic prosperity of the producers of goods produced in a
geographical territory which in turn boost exports.
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GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS..
• Any association of persons, producers, organisations or authority established by or
under the law, representing the interests of the producers can apply for registration
of GI to the Registrar of GI in the prescribed format along with the prescribed fee.
• A producer of goods can apply for registration as an authorised user of a registered
GI. Producer in the case of agricultural goods means a person engaged in the
production, processing, trading or dealing in such goods; in the case of natural
goods, a person engaged in exploiting, trading or dealing; in the case of handicrafts
or industrial goods, a person engaged in making, manufacturing, trading or dealing
in such goods.
• An authorised user has the exclusive rights to the use of geographical indication in
relation to registered goods. The registration of GI is valid for a period of 10 years
and can be renewed from time to time for a further period of 10 years each.
• A regd. GI is a public property belonging to the producers of the concerned goods
and hence it can not be assigned / transmitted / licenced / pledged or mortgaged.
INFRINGEMENT
• When an unauthorised user uses a GI that indicates or suggests that such goods
originate in geographical area other than the true place of origin of such goods in a
manner which mislead the public as to the geographical origin of such goods; or,
• when the use of a GI result in an unfair competition including passing off in respect
of registered GI; or When the use of another GI results in false representation to the
public that goods originate in a territory in respect of which a registered GI relates,
it constitutes infringement.
• The registered proprietor or authorised users of a regd. GI can initiate infringement
action.
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Layout Designs of Semi-conductor ICs
It provides protection for semiconductor IC layout designs. India has now in
place Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout Design Act, 2000 to give
protection to IC layout design. Layout design includes a layout of transistors
and other circuitry elements and includes lead wires connecting such elements
and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor IC.
Semiconductor IC is a product having transistors and other circuitry elements,
which are inseparably formed on a semiconductor material or an insulating
material or inside the semiconductor material and designed to perform an
electronic circuitry function. The term of the registration is 10 years from the
date of filing.
An IC layout design cannot be registered if it is
1.Not original, 2. Commercially exploited anywhere in India or in a
convention country; 3.Inherently not distinctive, 4. Inherently not capable of
being distinguishable from any other registered layout design.
Note: Design not exploited commercially for more than 2 years from date of
registration of application shall be treated as commercially exploited for the
purpose of this Act.
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45.
Layout Designs of Semi-conductor ICs
• Reproducing, importing, selling, distributing the IC
layout design for commercial purposes only
constitutes infringement. A person when creates
another layout design on the basis of scientific
evaluation of a registered layout design shall not be
causing any infringement.
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46.
PLANT VARIETIES
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The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
was established in 1961 by the International Convention for the Protection of
New Varieties of Plants (the “UPOV Convention”). UPOV provides and
promotes an effective system of plant variety protection, with the aim of
encouraging the development of new varieties of plants, for the benefit of
society. E.g. Indian Bt. Brinjal
In order to obtain protection, a breeder must file an individual application with
each authority entrusted with the granting of breeders’ rights. A breeder’s right
is only granted where the variety is new, distinct, uniform, stable and has a
suitable denomination.
In the USA, there are two legal frameworks for protecting new plant varieties:
the Plant Patent Act (PPA) and the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA).
According to the PPA, whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces
any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants,
hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant (in
practice, Irish potato and Jerusalem artichoke) or a plant found in an
uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor. Under the PVPA, the US
protects all sexually reproduced plant varieties and tuber propagated plant
varieties excluding fungi and bacteria.

47.
COPYRIGHT
• Copyright is a monopoly right restraining others from exercising that right
which has been conferred on the owner of copyright.
• It is a negative right meaning thereby that it is prohibitory in nature. It is a
right to prevent others from copying or reproducing the work.
• The object of copyright is to encourage authors, composers and artists to
create original works by rewarding them the exclusive right for a specific
period to reproduce the works for publishing and selling them to the public.
The moral basis of copyright law rests in the eighth commandment “Thou
shall not steal”.
• Copyright is not a single right. It is a bundle of rights in the same work. For
e,g. in the case of a literary work, copyright consists of reproduction in
print media, the right of dramatic and cinematographic versions, the right
of translation, adaptation, abridgement and the right of public performance.
• Copyright consists not merely of the right of reproduction. It also consists
of right to works derived from the original work, rights like the right of
public performance, the recording right and the broadcasting right. Such
related rights are called “neighbouring rights”.
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COPYRIGHT CONTD..
• To secure copyright protection, the author must have bestowed upon
the work “sufficient judgment, skill and labour or capital”. It is
immaterial whether the work is wise or foolish, accurate or
inaccurate or whether it has literary merit or not. Copyright protects
the skill and labour employed by the author in his work.
• The owner of a copyright has no monopoly in the subject-matter.
Others are at liberty to produce the same result provided they do so
independently and though they are not first in the field, their work is
nonetheless ‘original’.
• There is no copyright in ideas. Copyright subsists only in the
material form to which the ideas are translated. Since there is no
copyright in ideas or information, it is no infringement of copyright
to adopt the ideas of another or to publish information derived from
another, provided there is no copying of the language in which those
ideas have or that information has been previously embodied.
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COPYRIGHT CONTD…
• Copyright subsists in “original literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works;
cinematographic films and sound recordings”.
• Literary work includes computer programs, tables, compilations inclu. computer
data bases. Dramatic work includes any piece for recitation, choreographic work
or entertainment in a dumb show, the scenic arrangement or acting form of
which is fixed in writing or otherwise but does not include cinematographic
film.
• Music work means a work consisting of music and includes any graphical
notation of such work, but does not include any works or action intended to be
sung, spoken or performed with the music.
• An artistic work means a painting, a sculpture, a drawing (incl. diagram, map,
chart or plan), an engraving or a photograph, whether or not any such work
possesses artistic quality; a work of ‘architecture’ means any building or
structure having an artistic character or design or any model for such building or
structure.
• Cinematographic film means any work of usual recording on any medium
produced through a process from which a moving image may produced by any
means and includes a sound recording accompanying such visual recording and
‘cinematograph’ shall be construed as including any work produced by any
process analogous to cinematography including video films.
• Sound recording means a recording of sounds from which such sounds may be
reproduced regardless of the medium on which such recording is made or
method by which the sounds are produced.
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COPYRIGHT CONTD….
• The word ‘original’ does not mean that the work must be expression
of original or inventive thought. It only means the work must not be
copied from another work, that is, it should originate from the
author.
• To qualify for copyright in India, the work should satisfy the
following conditions:-
 the work is first published in India;
 where the work is first published outside India, the author at the
date of publication must be a citizen of India. If the publication
was made after the author’s death, the author must have, at the
time of death, been a citizen of India.
 In the case of unpublished work the author, on the date of
making of the work, is a citizen of India or domiciled in India.
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COPYRIGHT CONTD..…
• Copyright is a bundle of rights consisting of 1) economic rights and 2) moral rights.
ECONOMIC RIGHTS:
(a) In the case of a literary, dramatic or musical work, not being a computer program, the
right consists of ,-
1) to reproduce the work in any material form incl. the storing of in any medium by
electronic means;
2) to issue copies of the work to the public ;
3) to perform the work in public, or communicate it to the public;
4) to make any cinematographic film or sound recording in respect of the work;
5) to make any translation of the work;
6) to make any adaptation of the work;
7) to do, in relation to translation or adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified
in relation to the work in sub-clauses (1) to (6)
(b) In the case of computer program,-
1) to do any of the facts specified in clause (a);
2) to sell or give on hire, or offer for sale or hire any copy of the computer program,
regardless of whether such copy has been sold or given on hire on earlier occasions;
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COPYRIGHT CONTD…...
(c) in the case of an artistic work,-
1) to reproduce the work in any material form incl. depiction in two
dimensions of a three dimensional work;
2) to communicate the work in public;
3) to issue copies of the work to the public;
4) to include the work in any cinematographic film;
5) to make adaptation of the work;
6) to do in relation to an adaptation of the work, any of the acts specified in
relation to the work in sub-clauses (1) to (4).
(d) in the case of cinematographic film,-
1) to make a copy of the film, incl. a photograph of any image forming part
thereof;
2) to sell or give on hire, or offer for sale or hire, any copy of the film,
regardless of whether such copy has been sold or given on hire on earlier
occasions;
3) to communicate the film to the public.
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COPYRIGHT CONTD……..
(e) in the case of a sound recording,-
1) to make any other sound recording embodying it;
2) to sell or give on hire, or offer for sale or hire, any copy of the sound recording
regardless of whether such copy has been sold or given on hire on earlier occasions;
3) to communicate the sound recording to the public.
MORAL RIGHTS:
1) the right to decide whether to publish or not to publish the work;
2) the right to claim authorship of a published or exhibited work;
3) the right to prevent alteration and other actions that may damage the author’s
honour or reputation – the right of integrity;
4) to restrain or claim damages.
TERM (Period) OF COPYRIGHT
• In the case of any literary, dramatic, musical or a artistic work (other than a
photograph), life time of the author + 60 years.
• In the case of photograph, cine films, sound recording and Govt. Work, 60 years
from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is
first published.
• In the case of broadcasters/performers, reproduction right shall subsist until 25
years from the calendar year next following the year in which the
broadcast/performance is made.
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COPYRIGHT - OWNERSHIP
AUTHOR AND OWNERSHIP OF COPYRIGHT: [See Sec. 2(d)]
The author in relation to various categories of works is as follows:-
 Literary or dramatic work – author of the work
 Musical work – composer
 Artistic work – Artist
 Photograph – Photographer
 Cinematograph film – Film producer
 Sound recording – the producer
 Literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work which is computer generated –
the person who causes the work to be created.
The owner of copyright:
 Normally the author of the work will be the first owner, subject to the
following exceptions.
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COPYRIGHT – OWNESHIP : EXCEPTIONS
• Where a work is made by the author in the course of his employment
by the proprietor of a newspaper/magazine/
periodical for publication therein, then such proprietor will be first
owner.
• Where a photograph is taken or a painting or a portrait drawn or an
engraving or cine film made for a consideration at the instance of any
person, then such person shall be the first owner.
• When a work is made in the course of the author’s employment under a
contract of service/apprenticeship, the employer will be the first owner.
• Where any person has delivered any address or speech in public, that
person will be first owner of the copyright.
• In the case of Government work, government is the first owner.
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INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT
INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT:
• Copyright in a work is deemed to be infringed –
a) when any person, without a license granted by the owner of the copyright or the
Registrar of copyrights or in contravention of the conditions of a license so granted
or of any condition imposed, -
(i) does anything, the exclusive right to do is conferred upon the owner of copyright;
or
(ii) permits for profit any place to be used for communication , unless he was not
aware and had no reasonable ground for believing that such communication to the
public would be an infringement of the copyright; or
b) when any person,-
(i) makes for sale or hire, or sells or lets for hire, or any way of trade displays or
offers for sale or hire; or
(ii) distributes either for the purpose of trade or to such extent as to prejudicially
affect the owner of the copyright; or
(iii) by way of trade exhibits in public; or
(iv) imports into India, any infringing copies of the work.
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INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT ..
• There is no infringement of copyright in copying an idea, theme, plot, historical
or legendary fact. Infringement occurs only in the form, manner, arrangement
and expression of the idea of author of the original work.
• If the theme is the same but it is differently treated or presented by different
writers or authors and the subsequent work takes the form of a completely new
work, then there would be no infringement.
• The better test is to see whether a spectator or viewer after having read or seen
both the works is clearly of the opinion with an unmistakable expression that the
subsequent work appears to be a copy of the original.
Acts not constituting infringement:
• A fair dealing with a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work,-
(i) for the purpose of private use, incl. research, criticism or review of the
work.
(ii) for the purpose of reporting current events.
(iii) by a teacher or a pupil in the course of instruction or writing answers to a
question in an examination.
(iv) for the purposes of judicial proceeding or for reporting a judicial proceeding.
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INFRINGEMENT OF COPYRIGHT…
• Importation of infringing copies:
On application by the owner of the copyright in any work or by his duly
authorised agent and on payment of prescribed fee, the Registrar of
copyrights, after making necessary enquiries, order that copies made outside
India shall not be imported. All copies to which any order so made shall be
deemed to be goods prohibited or restricted under section 11 of the Customs
Act and all the provisions of that Act shall apply. All such copies confiscated
shall be delivered to the owner of the copyright and the property in such
copies shall not vest in the Government.
• Remedies: There are three types of remedies against infringement of
copyright. These are (1) Administrative remedies (before Registrar of
Copyrights) (2) Civil Remedies (injunction, compensation, recovery of
infringed copies etc.) (before the District Court) and (3) Criminal remedies
(before Judicial or Metropolitan Magistrate). All the remedies can be availed
simultaneously.
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Quiz
• Lets Apply the criteria:
– Education command wants to reproduce a text
book and distribute to all bases and ships at sea.
Permissible?
– Graphs copied and reproduced in slides will be
used in lecture to 150 people. The lecture is going
to be video broadcast to all bases and ships at sea.
Permissible?
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60.
Examples of IPRs Infringement
Example 1
A student of a US university was accused of infringing intellectual
property rights after illegally downloading songs from the Internet and
sharing them with others. He was found guilty and ordered to pay four
businesses hefty damages of US$675,000.
The student was accused of downloading 30 songs from the Internet
and sharing them with friends. According to US federal law, the victim
may demand damages ranging from US$750 to US$30,000 for each
song infringed upon. If the perpetrator is determined to have committed
such a crime maliciously, the damages may be as much as US$150,000
per song. In fact, this was not the first time such a case had occurred.
Last month, a woman in Minnesota was ruled to have committed a
crime of infringement and ordered to pay damages of as much as more
than US$1 million. (Accessed on http://english.moe.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=11610&ctNode=514&mp=1
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61.
Examples of IPRs Infringement
Example 2
A graduate student in a Taiwan University uploaded publications of a domestic
publisher onto his website for downloading without authorization or consent.
The authorities were soon informed and the student was prosecuted and
convicted of copyright infringement.
The verdict was also sent to the student's school and the Ministry. As the
student was proved to have committed an infringement and was ordered to pay
damages of NT$100,000, the school printed the criminal and civil verdicts in
newspapers. The publisher urged the school to propagate the notion of respect
for intellectual property rights and properly punish the student to raise
awareness.
Since the incident seriously impacted the school's reputation, in addition to
expressing concern, the school immediately referred the student to its office of
student affairs for punishment and apologized to the publisher.
Intellectual property rights are an issue receiving much global attention. The
Ministry urges teachers and students to use the Internet legally and in a
reasonable manner.
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62.
CASE STUDIES
23-Jan-2013 Pfizer’s Canadian Patent On Viagra
A look at the reasons for the invalidation of Pfizer's Viagra patent by the Supreme Court of Canada, just 18 months before its natural expiry
date.
6-Sep-2011 Interim Injunction For Infringement to be granted very carefully
This article discusses the recent pharmaceutical trademark infringement suit where an interim injunction granted by the the Ahmednagar
District Court in favour of Sun Pharmaceuticals was reversed by the Appellate Court.
17-Dec-2007 IPAB to Hear Novartis Case without the Technical Member
Discussed in the article are the issues involved as to the role and status of a technical member in the overall constitution of Intellectual
Property Appellate Board (IPAB).
25-Sep-2007 Glivec: Pre-Grant opposition
Here we discuss the law suit filed by Novartis in the Chennai High Court, challenging the Indian Patent Office for:
1. Denial of its patent application for Glivec
2. Constitutional validity of section 3(d) of the Indian Patent Law
23-Oct-2000 Basmati Rice Patent Issue
Analysis of the real issues involved in the controversial case of Basmati Rice Patents from various perspectives: commercial, legal and general.
Point to point explanation of widely held misconceptions arising out of limited awareness.
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Growth in filings in two blocks of four years
x
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India has issued 1001 drug patents between April 2010 and March 2013, of which 771
were given to foreign drug makers, mainly from the US and Europe.

65.
EPILOGUE
Rome was not built in a day.
Any physical process, including development, has
to absorb some finite time before taking a shape. We
made a good start by keeping in place some very
useful systems and policies. (as per need at Global
level)
Based on our history we were HARES, but does
present Indian local organisations IP registrations
prove it? Hope our friendlyfoes doesnot overtake
us. Work SMART than hard. Knowledge is Power.
We are in Knowledge Economy days. Hence,
AWAKE, ReSearch and IPR (spread) it FAST.
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